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I Served The King of England
Price: £8.99
Add to basketA glitteringly comic novel charting the rise and fall of its remarkable hero Ditie, a daydreaming hotel waiter who comes into great fortune only to lose it. Deceptively whimsical, Hrabal here deftly skewers the 20th Century trials of his country.
Format: Paperback, 243pp
Publication date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780099540939